The market for luxury goods is expanding, driven by the rising levels of affluence in emerging markets, especially China

A host of well-intentioned new regulations will occupy the world’s wealth management firms this year, but what do they mean for clients?

Jerome Booth, Ashmore

Protecting clients from downside risk while taking advantage of investment opportunities will occupy wealth managers in 2012

In this highly uncertain macro-economic environment, dominated by the eurozone debt crisis, the Holy Grail of wealth preservation and portfolio diversification has become particularly challenging to achieve.

Gary Withers, First State

First State’s Gary Withers explains how one of the group’s priorities is enticing existing clients into specialist products such as infrastructure and real estate funds

UniCredit’s new private banking chief, Helmut Bernkopf, is seen as a safe pair of hands to guide the bank back towards its core markets

Bill O'Neill, Chief Investment Officer, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management EMEA (left), and Elisa Parisi-Capone, Senior Economist for Western Europe and Finance and Banking at Roubini Global Economics, discuss what the future holds for Europe's common currency

Private bankers are gradually coming to realise the benefits that new technologies can bring, be it freeing up advisors from menial tasks to identifying possible clients

Dan Briggs, Fleming Family & Partners

A wide range of vehicles are available to investors looking to adopt volatility strategies, either as a source of return, or as a way of protecting portfolios

With volatility expected to remain high over coming months, strategies which profit from market swings or try to hedge portfolios from those wild market movements are very much in demand.

While stockmarkets in China and Hong Kong fell significantly during 2011, few have lost faith in the long-term Asian growth story